John 11

Jesus is troubled

33 So when Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.*Why? What troubled Him? He would not be inconsistent with Himself and His commitment to the Father’s will, the Plan. Seeing Mary’s despair, perhaps He felt distress at the suffering the Plan was causing—He did not enjoy the fact that He was responsible for that suffering. 34 And He said, "Where have you put him?" They say to Him, "Lord, come and see." 35 Jesus wept.*The verb rendered ‘wept’ is really ‘shed tears’, different from the verb in verse 33, which is often associated with mourning. Jesus was not mourning, knowing what He was about to do. So why did He weep? Perhaps He was empathizing with their grief. But I imagine that their hopeless perspective also troubled Him—their view of death was inadequate.